Louis MacNeice quote

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice
Born: Sep 12, 1907
Died: Sep 3, 1963

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